§ 3 Prevention of Game Manipulation

Criminality in competition and match-fixing have become a global threat of sports and threaten to damage the fundamental characteristics of sports, the credibility, the fairness and the integrity of sports.

Ineligible sports betting:

Players and Team Staff must not bet on EBEL games and on games of any EBEL team in other championships (e.g. CHL).

Compulsory registration of possible game manipulations:

Every participant of a team (players, team staff etc.) in the EBEL has to register possible game manipulations. Therefore it is obligatory establishing a confidant within the club.

Commitment of instructions for prevention of game manipulation:

Especially there has to be a youth program of instructions in prevention of game manipulation.

Bribery:

A person who offers, promises or grant an illegal advantage to any official functionary of the EBEL, the federation or a club, to a game official or a player or a third party directly or indirectly in order that this person violates the regulations will be punished according to the penalty catalogue Nr. 42 – 44.

A person who is asking, accepts, promises or grant any kind of illegal advantage for him-self or a third party or does not report any attempt immediately to the appropriate federation will be punished in the same way.

Offense under this provision shall lapse after 5 years, unless a longer criminal statute of limitations exists, otherwise the longer criminal statute of limitations applies.